Former Attorney General Martha Coakley of Massachusetts

8/26/2015

Attorney Martha Coakley

c/o Foley Hoag LLP

155 Seaport Boulevard

Boston, MA  02210-2600
USA

Dear Attorney Coakely,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a huge strong interest in studying with learning history, criminal justice system, and social justice. The main reasons I am interested in learning these subjects is to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from discrimination, find ways to reduce crime to improve public safety while protecting people’s civil liberties, protect the environment from pollution, and the need to combat against special interest groups from abusing their power on the people.  Attorney Coakley, I find your work as Attorney General of Massachusetts to be very inspiring to me with your common sense with finding ways to make the system fair.

When you were Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2007-2015, I liked your commitment to be a strong supporter of protecting Civil Rights and being an advocate to protect minorities, women, people with disabilities, and people with sexual orientation from being discriminated.   On helping protect people with disabilities rights including finding ways to have technology be more access to them, I liked on how you used your role as Attorney General to work with Apple Inc. on finding ways to make their Apple I-tunes store, their software, and educational software be more accommodating for people who are blind, people who are deaf, people with mental issues, people with Autism, and other disabilities. On this issue I liked on how you worked with Apple Inc. to help them find ways to follow the American With Disabilities Act and follow Massachusetts Equal Rights Act to reduce discrimination and to help people with disabilities get an access to an educational source when learning different topics.  Another thing I really liked was on how you supported same-sex couples rights by supporting hate crime legislation to help protect them from being targeted by a hate crime and filed suit to challenge the Defense of Marriage Act’s law because it discriminates against b same-sex couples. For the environment, I liked on how you created a coalition with leading 18 states asking the EPA to take action to regulate greenhouse gas because gas emissions causes danger to public health or welfare after the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA does have authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. To help protect home owners, taxpayers, and people who owned businesses from abuse caused by financial institutions including Wall Street I was very proud of how you stood up to special interest groups including financial institutions by suing Goldman Sachs and Fremont Investment & Loan for their abuse on subprime loans and lending and later winning the settlements with using the settlements to help the state including people who were abused by the financial institutions.

Your work on helping people with disabilities, being an advocate to help them, and protecting people who are different from being discriminated really inspires me to work hard on my disability which is Autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects and have trouble with speech when communicating with other people. When you negotiated with Apple Inc. it really made a great difference for me because Apple Inc. has made their technology with educational software easy for me to work on understanding vocabulary with having audio being read back to me to help me understand comprehension when reading or learning topics.  Also your work as Attorney General got me interested in taking a criminal justice class at my community college in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I enjoyed taking the class because I got to learn about how the court system works, Miranda rights, law enforcement, settlement cases, Supreme Court cases, and different ideas of reform. My instructor also explained in class for the need for Attorney General to help protect victims or people who are different from discrimination or if they are targeted by a crime. After he lectured about what role does an Attorney General does I got very interested in researching your role and I liked on how you worked hard to protect the people from fraud and discrimination.

Ms. Coakley, You make a great example of what an Attorney General needs to be by helping protect people who are different like minorities, women, people with sexual orientation, and people with disabilities from being discriminated, finding ways to negotiate with a company to help improve people’s lives or work on creating accommodations to help people who are different get access or care that they need instead of going to court where it cost taxpayer’s money, and prosecuting financial institutions including special interest groups when they commit fraud, waste, and abuse against homeowners including taxpayers. Your work on working with Apple on finding ways to improve technology to be more access or accommodating to people with disabilities really inspired me to use Apple software including educational software to help assist my disability with improving on learning comprehension.  Also your commitment to improve society inspired me to have an interest in studying the criminal justice system. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference, and inspiring me to continue to work hard on studying subjects with having the confidence to work on Autism.  I wish you well at Foley Hoag LLP where you can use great ideas to make society better.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Associate Justice Goodwin Liu of Supreme Court of California

8/13/2015

Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu

c/o Supreme Court of California

Earl Warren Building

350 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA  94102-4797
USA

Dear Associate Justice Liu,

My name is Matthew Winick, an Asian American from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in studying history.  The main reason I have a strong interest in studying history is to learn with understand the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, have checks and balances in judicial system including the Constitution to help protect people’s civil liberties from being violated while finding ways to reduce crime, protect the environment from pollution, have government reform to reduce corruption in judicial, elections, and public official, and many others.  My main goal is to use history to teach people about the need to improve society with explaining how different core values are important.  Associate Justice Liu, I find your work as a law professor at UC Berkley School of Law and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California to be very inspiring to me with your approach on judicial issues.

When you were professor at UC Berkley School of Law I really liked on you worked on writing different publications dealing with Constitutional law, Civil Rights, educational policy, and the Supreme Court.  My favorite publications that you wrote are “Keeping Faith with the Constitution”, “Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights”, “Improving Title I Funding Equality Across States, Districts, and Schools”, “Education, Equality, and National Citizenship”, and “Interstate Inequality in Educational Opportunity”. The reason I really like reading your publications is because I really like on how you express the need to protect Civil Liberties from being violated, explain the need to help protect people who are poor or who need welfare on their rights to get assistance instead of being discriminated by the courts or legislatures, support the need to strengthen Civil Rights in different areas like education, jobs, public places to help people with disabilities, women, minorities, and people with different preferences be protected from discrimination. When you testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee about why you should be nominated for U.S. Court of Appeal for Ninth Circuit I really liked on how you expressed on how a judge should not use ideology when deciding cases, how judges should protect the Constitution from being weakened, and how there is a need to help protect people who are different from being discriminated.  Even though both political parties blocked your nomination and you withdrawing from being considered for the seat, I was very proud of you for your commitment to not play politics, emphasize on the need to protect the Constitution from being weaken or abused, and emphasized the need to protect people who are poor or on welfare and people who are different from being discriminated.  I was very proud of you accepting Governor Brown of California on being nominated on a seat for the Supreme Court of California and later being sworn on the California Supreme Court.  On the California Supreme Court, I like on how you continue being in favor of advancing on Civil Rights with protecting it from being weakened to help protect women, minorities, people with disabilities, and people with different preferences, support women’s rights, defend same-sex couples or people with different sexual orientation from being discriminated, support repair relationship between minorities and judicial system, and being against torture or abuse on an individual when accused of a crime. 

Associate Justice Liu, Your work on writing different publications helped me get inspired to take an Intro to Criminal Justice class at Washtenaw Community College in Winter 2014 where I learned about different Constitutional amendments with how they play a part in the judicial system, how the court systems work, Miranda Rights, law enforcement, and different Supreme Court Cases.  My criminal justice instructor recommended me to read different publications to learn more about the judicial system and how there is a need for reform. Your publications helped me feel motivated to be interested in learning about the criminal justice system, helped me understand how the Constitution plays a role, and understand different ideas of reform to make the system better for people. Also your publications helped me work on creating different ideas for reform in my Criminal Justice class where my instructor helped assist me on it.   Your work on being an advocate to make Civil Rights stronger including a\supporting protecting minorities, gender, people with disabilities, and people with different sexual orientation really inspires me to work hard on Autism with a learning disability.  Having a disability is difficult for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects, sometimes I have trouble with speech when communicating with other people, and sometimes I get teased by other people about it. Another thing is that your role as an influential Asian American with being an activist for the Asian American Community really inspires me to be confident about being an Asian American when I get teased by some Asian Americans including Asians about having a disability.

Associate Justice Liu, I’m proud to call you a true role model and a true inspiration to me to be interested in learning the criminal justice system, understand the Constitution’s purpose, learn the need for reform to fix the system, and to be interested in history.  Another thing is your activism to help reduce discrimination by advocating to make Civil Rights stronger and help the Asian American communities including Asian communities really inspired me to work hard on Autism with a learning disability, to continue learning, and to be confident about being an Asian American.  I strongly believe that you make a great difference for society, history, the judicial system,  Asian Americans, and many other people with different background.  Also I was wondering if you could please explain to me what it is like being a state Supreme Court Associate Justice and share with me what it like studying law because I plan on learning law to help me expand on learning history. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference with your ideas including being an advocate, and inspiring me. I wish you well on continuing your role as an Associate Justice on California Supreme Court where you can make a great difference and make the judicial system better with reform.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

My experience meeting Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland at his event in Ann Arbor, Michigan

In July 2015, I was web searching and saw that there was an Ann Arbor Happy Hour With Governor Martin O'Malley event on 8/12/2015 where Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland was coming to Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor Brewing Company.  I clicked the link and found out that you had to pay for the ticket to attend the event. After discovering that it was too expensive for me I decided to sent an email to the O'Malley Campaign where I described about myself like how I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, explained on how Governor O'Malley is an inspiration to me, and how I sent a letter appreciating his work. The campaign responded back to me saying that they would be happy to have me as the governor's guest for the event.  I got really excited about going to the event being the Governor's guest. When I arrived at Ann Arbor Brewing Company the O'Malley campaign was very kind and very enthusiastic about me coming to the event.  Before Governor O'Malley gave a speech I enjoyed talk to other people who attended the event and I got to learn about why they came to the event and how they wanted to learn more about Governor O'Malley's work with his ideas. Governor O'Malley came in and gave a great speech about how he made Maryland become a state to pass the Dream Act, an immigration reform to help immigrants including illegal immigrants on getting an education, improve Civil Rights to reduce discrimination, have regulations on Wall Street to prevent an abuse on the American people, support the need for renewable energy and alternative energy to reduce pollution, and many others. After he gave a speech Governor O'Malley came to talk to me for 10 minutes. During the 10 minutes Governor O'Malley thanked me for being his guest for the event,  Governor O'Malley told me that he enjoyed reading my letter, was moved about how I appreciate his hard work on making a difference, and enjoyed my story about what it like to have Autism with a disability, my goals to make history better, and how i dedicated him to my story. Even he explain some of his ideas to improve society including this country and he took the time  to listen to my concerns or thoughts. After he talked to me I got a photo with him. 

When I walked outside the newspapers asked me what I thought about attending the event and my thoughts of Governor O'Malley. I explained to them on how I was very impressed about how Governor O'Malley explained his policies on Climate Change and Civil Rights.  The newspapers were very kind of me, taking the time to be patient about speaking to them, and were very interested in hearing about what I said.  After leaving the event I felt proud on that day and forever because I appreciate how the O'Malley for President Campaign including the Governor O'Malley went the extra mile for me to be a his guest for the event for free, getting a chance to meet a Governor for the 1st time, having a great conversation with Governor O'Malley including listening to my ideas or thoughts, and how the campaign workers who created with hosting the event treated me with respect.  

I really want to that the O'Malley For President campaign, Governor Martin O'Malley, and Mr. Jacob Kleinrock for taking the time to listen to my concern about attending the event, giving me a chance to be a governor's guest of the event, and meeting Governor O'Malley.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

My email to O'Malley Campaign about concerns about attending the event.

Governor O'Malley entering the Tap Room of Ann Arbor Brewing Company

Governor O'Malley about to give a speech

Picture of me with Governor Martin O'Malley. I had the pleasure of meeting him, talking to him, being the governor's guest, and getting a picture of me with him.

Former Governor James J. Blanchard of Michigan

7/22/2015

Governor James J. Blanchard

Chair Emeritus, Government Affairs Practice Group

c/o DLA Piper LLP

500 8^th Street, NW

Washington, DC  20004
USA

Dear Governor Blanchard,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in studying history.   The main reason history is one of my favorite subjects is because I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to help protect people from being discriminated, a strong need to protect the environment from pollution, the need to help train workers to help improve the economy, and many others.  Also what I like to do with history is to study on how different people can make a great difference with their ideas and their work.  Governor Blanchard, I find your work as Governor of Michigan and later being a U.S. Ambassador to Canada to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as 45^th Governor of Michigan in 1983-1991, I really liked on how you worked hard to help improve Michigan’s economy by creating Michigan Youth Corps, a jobs training program to help train youth improve their work skills and help create jobs, creating a commission on Jobs and Economic Development where you formed a coalition with different business, labor organizations, and education to find common ground on fixing the economy, making worker’s rights stronger, and improving on education,  and implementing a public works project which created jobs to help fix infrastructure, roads, and public transportation to improve public safety.  On education I really liked on how you made it an important issue by creating Michigan Education Trust, a tuition program to help Michiganders in the state get assistance on tuition to go to college in order to get an education, Research Excellence Fund to help get your state get funding to do research on technology with improving technology to be a resourceful tool for people, and the Michigan Model Health Curriculum to help educate students on staying healthy with understanding different health issues. Your work on protecting the environment to make Michigan a better place from pollution and to improve tourism is common sense by strengthening environment protection on The Great Lakes to prevent it from being polluted, having funds to make water, rivers, and lakes clean from toxic chemicals, and supporting educational programs to help address the need to protect the environment from pollution with educating about ideas like conservation, renewable alternative energy, and other ideas to reduce pollution.  Also in your role as Governor of Michigan I really liked on how you continued your commitment to support Civil Rights to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in education, public places, and jobs.  When you were Ambassador to Canada I liked on how you worked with them on improving relations between the U.S. and their country by working to improve environmental protection from pollution and having Open Skies Agreement to improve traveling for people to visit different countries, find ways to improve routes to help make flights safer, and to improve trade on different products.

I took a class about Michigan History at Washtenaw Community College and I enjoyed taking the class because I enjoyed learning about how Michigan had some historical part in U.S. History and how different people from Michigan area help make Michigan become a diverse place. In my Michigan History class I enjoy researching about your work as Governor of Michigan on finding ways to create jobs, improve education with reform, create coalition with different organizations to find ways to improve Michigan, protect the environment, and protect Civil Rights after my teacher gave a lecture about you.  Also your work on these different issues including supporting Civil Rights really inspired me to work hard on Autism, my disability and to have a strong interest in history to learn more about how different core values make a great difference in our country including the world.  Another thing is that your commitment to find ways to improve relations with other countries got me inspired to continue learning more about world history, understand the importance of building relations with other countries to work together on environment, peace, and many others.

 As a Michigander with a strong interest in studying history I am proud to call you one of my favorite U.S. Governors of Michigan because you really made a great difference on finding ways to create jobs with forming coalitions with different organizations to make Michigan a better place, improving education with reform to make learning better for students, protecting the environment from pollution, and supporting Civil Rights.  Also your work as Ambassador to Canada really made a great difference to improve better relations between both countries.  Also I consider you and Governor Jennifer Granholm to be great influential Governors of Michigan. Also I was wondering if you could please explain what it was like being an Ambassador of a country and give me advice about continuing learning history with government policy. Thanks for your hard work on making Michigan great with great ideas with achievements, inspiring me to be interested in history with working hard on Autism, and continuing make a great difference for society. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter. I want to wish you well on continuing your work on advocating for good ideas at DLA Piper LLC.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

"Behind The Embassy Door" Book he sent me 

Former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson

7/21/2015

Ms. Lisa P. Jackson

VP of Environmental Initiatives

c/o Apple, Inc.

1 Infinite Loop

Cupertino, CA  95014
USA

Dear Ms. Jackson,

My name is Matthew Winick and I have a strong interest in studying history.  The main reason I have a strong interest in studying history is to learn the need to protect the environment from pollution by having environmental protection with renewable alternative energy to reduce our addiction to oil with gas, the need to advance on Civil Rights to protect people who are different from discrimination, a need for government reform to reduce corruption in public officials including elections, finding ways to improve public safety with public health, and many others.  For the future I plan on using history as a tool to teach people about the need to improve society. Ms. Jackson, I find your work and your life as a worker in the EPA Department, New Jersey Commissioner of Environmental Protection under Governor Corzine, and becoming EPA Administrator under President Obama’s Administration to be very inspiring to me with your common sense about protecting the environment and being an advocate for the need to reduce climate change.

Before you started working in the EPA I was amazed on how you got interest in being active in environmental matters by becoming a volunteer for an organization at Clean Sites where you worked with them to help speed up cleaning up toxic chemicals from sites to improve public safety.  When you were appointed to be New Jersey Commissioner of Environmental Protection by Governor Corzine I liked on how you worked with law enforcement, community residents, and business on creating environmental initiatives to help reduce pollution in two cities Camden and Paterson by finding ways to reduce smog, improve public health, clean up toxic chemicals in drinking water, find ways to improve recycling properly with reducing littering, and many others.  I was very proud of you for accepting President Obama’s appointment for you to become an EPA Administrator.  When you were EPA Administrator under President Obama I liked on how you worked with him on finding ways to protect the environment from pollution by supporting his ideas to reduce climate change, implementing with promoting renewable energy like wind, solar, clean biofuel, and energy efficient products as energy sources to reduce our addiction to oil with gas.   During the BP Oil Spill, I liked on how you worked with President Obama, Secretary of The Navy Ray Mabus, and the BP Oil Commission Former Democratic Senator Bob Graham and Former Republican EPA Administrator William K. Reilly on investigating the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Bay, create ideas to improve public safety, advocate for regulations to prevent an oil spill, and create a plan to team up with community, local, and different states on rebuild them from the spill with providing clean up funds to improve public safety.  Also I liked on how you spoke against the idea of building the Keystone Pipeline to help protect public safety including the environment, public lands, and farmers from pollution and future oil spills

Your work on environmental justice, being an advocate to reduce climate change with supporting renewable energy to reduce pollution, and your role as an EPA administrator helped me get inspired to be interested in learning more about the benefit of the environment and the need for renewable energy with alternative energy to reduce our addiction to oil with gas.  Also your work on these issues helped me get motivated to watch documentaries about protecting the environment from pollution, the dangers of oil with gas on the public, and how renewable energy can make a great difference. Since 2013 and currently I myself am a volunteer at Ann Arbor Hands On Museum, a children science museum in Ann Arbor Michigan where I work with other volunteers on helping teach children about science through working with them on doing hands-on science demonstrations. Also as a volunteer I also work with other volunteers to teach children about the need to protect the environment with explaining how to reduce pollution.

Ms. Jackson, I strongly believe that you made a great difference in your role as an environmental justice activist and later being an EPA Administrator under President Obama on making a great difference to protect the environment from pollution with supporting ideas of renewable energy including alternative energy like wind, solar, biofuel, and energy efficient products to make society and the environment a better place. Even though these ideas are not popular with both parties in Congress and special interest groups I am very proud of you for standing up to them with ideas to protect the environment from pollution. Also I’m very proud of you for working with President Obama, Secretary of Navy Ray Mabus, former Democratic Senator Bob Graham, and former Republican EPA Administrator  William Reilly on bipartisanship ideas to improve public safety, improve regulations limiting co2 emissions with pollution, and support the country moving towards renewable and alternative energy.  I also strongly believe that protecting the environment and supporting renewable energy including alternative energy is not an ideology issue, but an American issue and an environmental issue,. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, inspiring me to be more aware about the environment, and working hard to make a great difference with your work on the environment. I want to wish you well for your role at Apple Inc. where you can help make their company more environmental safety.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick